XADM: MTA Converts (a) to (040)a(041) in Message Tracking

If you send a message to an Outlook contact or personal Address Book entry that contains an encapsulated RFC-822 address.

For example: you may find that the message tracking logs in the Microsoft Exchange Server Administrator program incorrectly show the (a) translated to (040)a(041). As a result, the above address appears as follows:

The Exchange Server message transfer agent (MTA) is incorrectly translating the parentheses (), which are then written to the tracking log.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Exchange Server 5.5. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 5.5 SP3. This problem was first corrected in Exchange Server 5.5 Service Pack 4.